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Jacobin Show: US Empire in Withdrawal? w/ Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad
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Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, two of the left's most brilliant critics of US empire, sit down with Jacobin Show's Ariella Thornhill to discuss their new book The Withdrawal. To Chomsky and Prashad, US global power acts much the same way a Godfather rules over a Mafia family, imposing its interests on all who stand in its way domestically or inter…
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Remembering Bill Russell & Vin Scully, wishing to forget Pete Rose & more
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We share our feelings after the deaths of two sports icons. We lament the continuing grotesquerie that is Pete Rose. Are the Arizona Cardinals racist for telling Kyler Murray he needs to study more? Plus the EPL season gets underway, the marvel that is Sabrina Ionescu and more, including Jonah singing the Hartford Whalers song.…
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Michael and Us: A Vast and Ecumenical Holding Company
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Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take it anymore. We watched an American classic and discovered that Howard Beale's famous speech isn't even the most important speech in the movie. Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and ou…
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Behind the News: Nuclear Options w/ Leigh Phillips
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Doug interviews Leigh Phillips on why nuclear power has to be part of any serious decarbonization program. Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as part of a bid to consolidate power—and how the ruling classes of both countries are political capitalists of a sort unknown in the West. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, cove…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Economic Weirdness w/ Robert Brenner
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Suzi talks to economic historian Robert Brenner to get his understanding of this strange economic moment. What makes it strange? Inflation has dampened spending, the economy is shrinking, and many call it "shaky." Yet profits are strong and soaring, especially in the energy sector, in part because of Russia’s war on Ukraine. And job growth continue…
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Long Reads: Dina Khoury on the US Destruction of Iraq (Part 2)
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Dina Khoury joins Long Reads for the second in a two-part conversation about Iraq since the US occupation. Dina is a historian of the Middle East, and her books include Iraq in Wartime. Listen to part one here: https://shows.acast.com/jacobin-radio/episodes/long-reads-us-destruction-of-iraq-part-1 Read her piece for Catalyst, "Iraq After US Occupat…
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Dig: Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram
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Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle. Check out How to…
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Jacobin Show: The Logic of Capital w/ Deepankar Basu
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Cale Brooks and Jen Pan discuss what is in the Inflation Reduction Act, the dregs of Biden’s Build Back Better plan that corporate Democrats felt they could sign onto, Matthew Cunningham-Cook outlines how the Biden admin has quietly expanded many of the policies from Trump’s Medicare privatization schemes, Rachel Cohen of Vox covers some positive d…
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EDITORIAL - Decreto de ahorro energético
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"La generación de riqueza hay que conectarla con la redistribución de la misma." "Las privatizaciones de sectores estratégicos han ido en contra de los intereses de la ciudadanía." "El planeta tiene que ser habitable. Pero ese planeta solo es habitable si es vivible la vida de las personas que lo habitan. Y principalmente de aquellos que no viven d…
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A World to Win: The Folly of Green Capitalism w/ Adrienne Buller
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This week, Grace speaks to Adrienne Buller, author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. They discuss what "green capitalism" actually is, how it is being embedded in international law, whether or not it is an inherently anti-democratic movement, and how it is linked to issues today like the cost-of-living crisis. A World t…
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Behind the News: Ruling-Class 'Chums' w/ Simon Kuper
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Doug speaks with Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Chums, on the upper-class caste that’s been ruling Britain for a decade. Then, an interview with James Meadway, director of the Progressive Economy Forum, on the dispiriting economics of the leader of the Labour Party, the drab Kier Starmer. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwoo…
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Michael and Us: Omni Consumer Products
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Many movies in the 1980s depicted American urban landscapes as lawless hellholes, but Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP (1987) was unique for locating the source of the problem in the corporate world. The Superdelegate patron tier has voted for us to watch one of the most beloved screen satires of all time, and we were happy to oblige. See cohost Will intro…
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A World to Win: Tory Chaos w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge
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This week, Grace speaks to Phil Burton-Cartledge, author of Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain, about the current leadership contest within the Conservative Party. They discuss why there's a dearth of Tory talent, why both candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, are trying to model themselves on Margaret Thatcher, a…
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Jacobin Show: Brandon, Can You Spare a Dime? w/ Matt Huber
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This week on The Jacobin Show, Jen Pan and Cale Brooks discuss America's pitiful "industrial policy," Paul Prescod discusses the upcoming teamsters contract fight, Matt Huber talks about Joe Manchin and the climate bill, and Branko Marcetic tells us why the Democrats, despite their rhetoric, are failing to do anything about the Jan 6 assault on the…
¿Las políticas de Podemos han ayudado a la ciudadanía o la formación morada se ha convertido en aliada de las élites económicas de nuestro país? Marc Luque entrevista a Andrés de Francisco sobre su nuevo ensayo "Podemos, izquierda y nueva política". SUSCRÍBETE EN EL SIGUIENTE ENLACE Y ACTIVA LA CAMPANITA 🔔: https://www.youtube.com/c/ElJacobino/?sub…
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Michael and Us: Tornado, Earthquake, or Godzilla? w/ Justin Decloux
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In 1984, Godzilla rose from Tokyo Bay for the first time in nine years for THE RETURN OF GODZILLA. In 1985, an American distributor dramatically recut the movie into GODZILLA 1985. We're joined at long last by Important Cinema Club co-host Justin Decloux to discuss the many structural and ideological changes that were imposed upon Godzilla's big co…
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Behind the News: Technocracy in Italy w/ Paolo Gerbaudo
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Doug interviews Paolo Gerbaudo on the failure of technocracy and the imminence of right-wing rule in Italy. Then Chris Bohner, author of a recent report called Labor's Fortress of Finance and a Jacobin article, "Now Is the Time for Unions to Go on the Offensive," discusses the huge stash unions have but aren't spending. Behind the News, hosted by D…
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Dig: Dead Generations w/ Matt Christman
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Featuring Matt Christman on how American history brought us to this awful present. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Long Reads: Dina Khoury on the US Destruction of Iraq (Part 1)
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Dina Khoury joins Long Reads for a two-part conversation about Iraq since the US occupation. Dina is a historian of the Middle East, and her books include Iraq in Wartime. Read her piece for Catalyst, "Iraq After US Occupation," here: https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/09/iraq-after-us-occupation Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at p…